Daughters of Union Veterans Collection, 78-99, Special Collections, UNLV Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Donated by Dorothy Murphy and Henrietta Denny.
Joyce Marshall, February 1996.
This collection is open for research.
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The Daughters of Union Veterans Tent 79 was organized on April 7, 1948 with sixteen charter members. As a non-profit organization, they provided medical books for hospitals, wheel chairs and other medical supplies for veterans and their families. The D.U.V. founded two scholarships for descendants of Union veterans and provided United States flags for schools and civic organizations. A primary goal of having Highway 6 renamed “The Grand Army of the Republic Highway” (Nevada was the only state that had not yet done so by 1948) was accomplished in 1953.
The collection is comprised of two accessions, one donated by Dorothy Murphy (acc. #78-99) and the other by Henrietta Denny (acc. #T-124), both members of the organization. Contents are limited, consisting of two scrapbooks of memorabilia and newspaper clippings, magazine articles profiling the Grand Army of the Republic, reissues of Harper’s Weekly from 1861, and the correspondence and ephemera of Henrietta Denny.
The collection is arranged in a single series with items divided into boxes by material format.
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For related topics and further information see the following collections:
Daughters of the American Revolution – Valley of Fire Chapter, MS 87-126